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Every day, well-intentioned employees overshare files in Microsoft 365 — exposing sensitive data, undermining compliance, and eroding trust. The cost isn’t always visible, but it’s real: time lost, credibility damaged, and reputations on the line. This post explores the hidden financial and operational impact of unchecked permissions, and how DeliverPoint gives organizations the visibility and control they need to collaborate securely without slowing innovation.
Transform your SharePoint intranet from static to dynamic. In this on-demand webinar, Brett Lonsdale (Microsoft MVP) demonstrates how Lightning Conductor helps you surface and organise content across sites—making your intranet more engaging, informative, and connected.
Microsoft has announced that the “Visualize the List” and “Visualize the Library” options in SharePoint will be retired next month (November 2025)! These built-in features gave users a quick way to create Power BI reports directly from their lists and libraries without leaving SharePoint.
SharePoint’s standard lookup column only lets you connect lists within the same site—useful, but limited. With the latest release of Lightning Forms and Forms Studio, you can now create lookup fields that pull data from external systems like SQL, JIRA, and Salesforce using Copilot Connectors. In this post, I’ll show you how we built a Helpdesk Issues form that pulls related issues directly from JIRA, and explain the difference between Lightning Forms and Forms Studio.
Lightning Tools Forms Studio is more than a form builder—it’s a complete solution builder for SharePoint and a cost-effective Power Platform alternative. Design custom forms, automate approvals and actions, package and redeploy solutions, and even migrate legacy InfoPath or Nintex forms with ease.
Oversharing in SharePoint is a growing challenge for Site Owners and Admins. In this webinar, Brett Lonsdale demonstrates how DeliverPoint makes SharePoint Permissions Management simple, with actionable reports, sharing link control, sensitivity label management, and bulk permission operations.
Social Squared transforms SharePoint into a structured community platform with threaded discussions, forums, and moderation tools—fully integrated with Microsoft 365 and Teams. If you’ve outgrown comments and Teams chat, this is the discussion board you’ve been looking for.
The Lightning Conductor is the ultimate SharePoint Rollup Web Part, empowering you to aggregate and display tasks, documents, news, calendars, and even external data from across Microsoft 365—all in one place. With built-in views like Grid, Calendar, Image Gallery, and Adaptive Cards, it offers unmatched flexibility for modern SharePoint intranets.
In this interview, Microsoft 365 Advisor Linda Berglund shares why she recommends DeliverPoint for SharePoint permissions management. From on-demand and scheduled reporting to permission snapshots and secure SPFx development, learn how DeliverPoint empowers Site Owners and admins to simplify governance, avoid sprawl, and stay Copilot-ready—at a fraction of the cost of SAM.